About The Future Food Engineering & Enterprise Challenge
The Future Food Engineering & Enterprise Challenge paired engineer mentors and young people from marginalised and under-represented groups across Merseyside to engineer solutions to the global climate emergency through a multi-stage, inter-school enterprise competition.
The young people and their mentors collaborated throughout the year to develop a start-up business that brought sustainable food production to their local community. The year culminated with a 'dragon's den' style pitching competition where teams presented their solution to a panel of Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Hub Fellows.
The project, led by the University of Liverpool’s School of Engineering, tested and developed an activity framework drawing on YESTEM’s equity compass, supporting engineers to engage young people, their teachers and families beyond the lifespan of the project.
